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OREGON SCOUT. JONES & CFATCEY, Prtllahen. UNION. OJUMOS. PITH AND POINT. i Habit is llio dross of chnractor. "Whitehall Times. In this world joy is moastirod by tho cup; troublo by tlio pock. Truth la beautiful, but socloty ns rothas not offered a proiniuui for its steady use. Pomcrou's Advance Thought. An Omaha editor lins discovered tli at tlioro is no such thing as n bald licndcd idiot. Atchison Globe. Train up a child In tho way ho should go," nnd keep a littlo ahead of liim in the sanio way during tho train ing, to bo sure ho goes. Picayune. A Western editor asks, "How shall vrc got our girls to road articles on Fcientific subjfots?" Why, mix tliem up with tho fashion notes, of course. Young women ought novor to got into a way of thinking that it is bettor to mnrry imprudently than remain Blnglo and oxposod to absurd comment thereby. Pittsburgh Chronicle. Laziness grows on peoplo; it bo gins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains. Tho moro businesss a mnn lias to do tho moro ho is ablo to ac complish, for ho learns to oconomizo Ids limo. Texas Silings. A printer up in Canada is snld to lio ouo hundred and throo years old. Ho lias mado so many Ij'pogrnphical errors dining his careor that ho is afraid to die. Somcrvillc Journal. Small boy (at church picnic) "I way, Johnny, whero's tho in nice ham sandwiches your ma put up for youP Thoso ain't no good." Johnnv (bit terly) "Tho superintendent an' tho touchers is a-oatin of '0111. ' N. 1. Sun. Whilo a man was nailing up a gate in Jnnosboro, Ga., lightning struck tho hammor and killed him, How many shiftless men will mako tills an oxcuso for novor nailing up tho gate. Texas Stflmgs. Tho lovor who writes tho swootost "Valentino pnotry before marriago doesn't always mako tho sort of a bus "Land who will bring up the coal and sootho wailing twins llvo years after tlio wedding day. If a man nnd wife aro ono flesh, no ronder it is such a painful operation for tlioiu to get divorced. And, bj' tho -way. that reminds us that divorces should only bo granted on Twos-day. Charleslown Enterprise. If there is nothing lovollor in tho world than a woll-bohaved and good tempered child, tlioro aro fow creat ures moro odious than ono who is law less and quarrelsome. Half a do.on such would render a lnrgo hotol un comfortable. A'. 1' Ledger. Tho di Ho ron co Oh I tlio Biri'n bountiful, Loving and dutiful, Wion wo ii' u hopeful to win hor. Lot hor our mitt (lony, Tlion Hho Is but n Riiy, Bhunuud a. tho veriest Hlimor. Boston Jludact. i Old Chocolate's Philosophy. , Dai's many a Ho on a tomb-stun. 2f do cat's nsleop do bacon am safe. Tears dat How bohin' do do' am do folios' oh sorror. Dar's no use look In' at do sun of hit plies yo1 eye. Do wicked offon wondoh how oddahs Id n bo gooil. Do dog dat doan' bank gits do big ges' motif id oh lireoehes. Doan' weep fo' faded blossoms. Dar cr seeds on do snmo hush. Do bird on do wnvin' branch a'n't lilt cz easy oz do "bird on do stump. Ef do doetah kin on' yo' lumbago, v'y can't ho on' Ms own ruumiytlz? Do light niu'-rod man does a quick Job will do faiunah w'oso biuui was struck. Ef a straight faco war ov'donco oh lionosty, nobody ud evalt eotch do man dat stole dat coonskin. Judne, Tho Caso Was Dismissed. "Did you strike this man?" Inquired tho judge. 'Yes, sir. I did. ' What did you do it for?" "Woll, yer Honor, It was this way. I was out in my yard llxln' up an ap ple tiyo that had been broken by tho wind. I had a littlo method of my own, that 1 thought would make tho troo grow together. This man caino ulong and says to mo: 'What yer doln' P" Then I went through tho wholo thing, and when I'd finished 1 savs: 'Don't you think It's a big under taking?' Troo-mond-ous."says he, and as for tho rest of tlio facts, tho police otlluer knows 'cm." .ldroi(ifi 2'raveter. A Squaro Man. Jo sort of elaborate eulogy can so iplotely iloiino enaraoter to the ap- naiiou oi i no many as tlio declara tion of a man that ho is "sutinro." This Is an abbreviation of "square lood." which, In its tlmo. was a con traction of "Ho squarely toos the line," An upright, honest man comes "square-toed" to tho liiioof duty, nnd is accordingly a square man. Tho term is simple, and it is Biilllcioiit. A voter i'ks to know no mora who learns that a caudldalo is a "quuro man." Tho word "qunro," to denote honesty and integrity of diameter, Is common In business and political phraseology, ami tho man who has the reputation of "being squaro' In all things, is pretty apt to bo trusted implioiiy by his fol-low-boln BU Louit Qlobe-Dcmocral. DUNDtii IN An Incident Which Matin Hip DIiI U.-.MI-iiihii IVrary anil Sick. "Sergeant, muypo you know snim pody who likes to buy mo oudt?" xaii Mr. Diiuder as he entered the Centra Station yesterday with a down-trodden nppearitnco, "Oh! it's you, is itP" queried Ser geant Dcudnll as ho looked up. "Got into some fresh trouble, I suppose?" "Sergeant, I. vims, broke all oop If I can sell oudt I doan shtay hero two weeks." "What's tho occasion P" "Vliell, it makes mo feci bettor if I tell you. You know I keep a telephone in my blnce; I keep him to shpeak in it my brewer nnd to somo Aldcrinans. Yesterday a man who vims nsshliclc ash grease conies in und says vims I Carl Dundor? I vims. All right. Mr. Diindor, dcr wires vhas crossed und your telephone doan' work. Sorry if you vhas troubled, but I feex him right off. Vhell, ho goes mit dot phono und taps on der box, und takes down dor trumpet und says: "Hello! Central! Hello! hollo! hello! y-e-s! I vhas at Carl Diindcr's. Can you hoar mo now? Why, of course if ho likes to treat mo dot vims all right. Nice oldt mans, und doan' you forget himl Vlieli nil right, gooUpye!' "Now, Sergeant, I haf to ask him to take a glass of beer, doan' I? If I doan' I vhas no shonllcman, eh?" "Go on." "Vhell, aboudt two hours later a ccond man came in. Ho vhas shlick too. Vhas I Carl I) under? I vhas, All right. Mr. Dunder, dot induction vhas so strong wo vhas in a peck of troubles. Let mo seo how your tele phono vhas. Und ho goes oop und knocks on der box und softly says Hello I Dill, vhas dot you ? No Yes. Perhaps. Yin', I vhas down to Cavl Duuder's place. I second der motion. I can get two lioonered votes for him for Alderman. Hasn't treated mo yet, but ho probably will. Vhell, so long.' "Now, Sergeant, I haf to sot oop dcr beer, doan' I ? I feels tickled, you know, und I like to bo a shontlenians, "I understand. What else ?" "Vhell, somo moro fellers come, und I doan' suspect nopody until Shako comes home. Don ho says it vhas an old shoslniit, mid dot I vhas soft in dot hoadt. Dot makes me madt all oafcr. foot' queok somopody comes in. Vims I Car Dinn er P I vhas. All rio-liL Say, Mr. Dundor, vhoii yoi ring on dor telephone your number doan' drop In der ofllce. l'loaso allow me. Und ho goes oop und rings und calls oudt " 'Vhas dot you, Nellie. All! doro, Nell ? Does dot .number drop down wnen i ring r bay, vims you going oop to dorl' lata next Soondny ? Guest' vhoro IvasP Not much! You vhas vlmy off. I vhas down to Carl- "Vhell, Sergeant, dot vhas all I could shtaud. I shitmp on dot feller und gif him six weeks sickness." "Good I 1 honor your pluck I" "Sergeant, keep quiot. Ho doan' go avhay oafor half an hour vhen my tele phone rings. Vhas f Carl Dundor ? 1 vhas. Dis vhas Supl. Shaokson, of der telephone. Mr. Dundor, you haf almost killed ono of our regular re pairers, und I like to say to you dot it cost you moro nsh four hoonered dol lars I" "No !" "Dot vhas so. I doan' shleop two winks last night, und my wife says it vhlll all come oudt dot 1 vhas Mo- Gariglo." 'It was a bad mistake." "Vhell, vhat can I do ? Shust liko I tells you, nopody vhas two times alike. I vhas all dor time shaking tit i t my boots, und Shako vhas going into consumption. Sergeant, if somopody arrests me let him bo very soft und (pilot. 1 vhas so broke oop dot I can't stand some more grief. If you see Mister Shaokson tell him how it vhas. roll him dot I vhas all turned around in dis country, nnd eafery time I kick at some dead-beat ho proves to bo a shentloinans. Good-pvo, Sergeant I Maype I tako some Hough on some Hats und put an end to all dis grief. " Detroit Free Press. Nautical Conversation. "Have you seen my beautiful yacht P" "Have I seen your beautiful whauht?" "Deautiful yacht," "Deautiful wliaeht?" "Yacht! yacht! yacht!" "Ohl No, 1 have uacht." "If it's naoht too haunt lot's tracht down to tho spaclit whore I keep my vaeht." "I waeht that you have nauht gaeht a yacht, (treat Scacht! 1 'know your plaeht. ion ought to be shaoht. I'll nacht stir one jaeht. your yacht is nothing but an ohl tuohb." V. J'. Sun. , m The following findorsenient was made by a colored preacher on the back of a marriage license rot union to tho of liceof thecounty register: "1, , did united those parties that was Menus, on '27 day of June, 1887, together in matrimony, in the imino of the Father, and of tho Sou and of the Holy Cost 1887, at tho honso of , in Wilmington, N. C, according to laws of New Hanover Co. Toguthor in the inline of tho Sou and of the Holy Gost." Wdminiiton (.V. t) Star. Great Traveler "Yes, thov have some curious customs in Cuba. Tor in stance, Cuban girls won't let their lov ers kiss them until after marriage." Omaha Girl "Very .short engage ments, I suppose." "No; sometimes the engagements last several yours." "And during all that tlmo they won t bo kissed?" "Not omm." "I don't bo- Muve It." Omaha World. ALFALFA OR LUCERN. The 1'laln Truth About tho Much Talked of I'ornfce Plant. There is considerable interest just now existing in regard to tho forage plant commonly known an alfalfa, This is the Spanish name of luccru, a plant of tho leguminous tribo closely resembling clover, and commonly cul tivated in Europe for green fodder. It differs from clover, however, in having more woody stalks, slenderer leaves, a purplish flower, and a legiimo or pod, which is colled spirally and contains several seeds. It is a native of Spain, and thrives best in hot, somewhat dry climates, and produces enormously when irrigated. In tho northern Ital ian-provinces it is commonly grown in this way, and is cut several times in a season, producing in tlio aggregate sixty to eighty inches of herbage in the growing season. It is perennial, and when kept freo from weeds and ma nured occasional! v it continues to yield abundantly for' twenty years, never being permitted to seed, however. It is not a good hay plant unless it is cut quite j'oung and cured with lit tlo exposure to the sun, but as a green fodder plant it is unexcelled. As com pared witli clover it is sixtoon percent, richer in albuminoids, thirty-thrco per cent, richer in fat, and eight or nine per cent, poorer in carbo-hydrates, and has twenty per cent, moro woody fibre, to which it owes its inferiority as a hay plant. It is an excellent food when cut green for all farm animals, for which use it is extensively cultivated in California, and might bo made very valuable in tho Southern States. As it has been made a subject for much discussion recently in tho loading agricultural journals, and has boon fre quently written of with moro favor, wo think, than it deserves, it is perhaps desirable to mention its disadvantages as compared with tlio only crop witli which it comes into competition, as well lis to notice all its valuable char acteristics. This wo do from personal experienco with it, having grown it moro than twenty j-ears ago as a forage crop and abandoned its culture as less profitable and convenient than that of red clover for ordinary farm purposes. It has novor been extensively grown where clover flourishes, and in such lo calities lias been sown moro as an ex periment than for use, nnd when so sown lias always fallon into neglect and disuse. It is of no use as a tem porary crop grown in rotation, because of its cqst and tho slowness witli which it comes to maturity. It requires a special culture, must bo sown alone and upon rich soil in tlio cleanest con dition, for it is quito unablo to resist weeds, nnd when in its first weak, slow growth is quickly smothered and stunted, consequent!' it is necessary to manure tho sou woll and to sow tho seed in drills twelve or sixteen inches apart and to cultivate crop frequently until it covers tho ground. Tho seed is costly, twenty pounds per nero is re quired, and tho prioo is twenty-five cents per pound. It can not bo grazed as clover may bo nor is it more prolific than clover. Theso aro its disadvantages, and it is easily perceived that as a competitor with clover it can not bo profitably substituted for it in ordinary farm cult ure where clover does its best. And when clovor is plowed under after it has served its purpose so well for two or three years it furnishes to tho soil a much larger quantity of valuable plant food than is contributed by alfalfa. Alfalfa nourishes most luxuriantly upon tho rich river bottoms of tho California valleys, known as tulu lands, and upon tho rich dry lands of Colorado and other localities of tho far West, where the climate is dry and ir rigation is practiced. Tlioro it is at its best, but tho conditions under which it luxuriates being so different from those prevailing elsewhere show plainly that it is not a suitable plan for ordi nary farming whore clover is at its best. Nevertheless, there are some localities in the eastern part of the continent where it may bo found very useful. In Honda and most of tho Southern States, for instance, it will find a con genial home and may be used most ad vantageously for summer feeding as green fodder; but its exacting charac ter in regard to culture should not be lost sight of, for it will refuse to grow under the same conditions in which clover would yield a fair crop and would utterly fail under the common ysteni of culture which prevails in tho South. Tho manner of preparing the soil for alfalfa is much the same as that f iraii other spring crop. Tho land should be deeply plowed, and if not rich enough to bring seventy-live bushels of corn or three tons of timothy and clover per aero it must bo made so by liberal manuring. J he land must, also bo cleared of weeds by previous sum mer fallowing, ami this clean culture s iudisVMisahle. The .-oil is brought to a line tilth by repeated harrowing, and the coed is then drilled in rows twelve to sixteen inches apart some lime in May. Tho ground is repeatedly cultivated during the summer, and if tho growth is good a crop of fodder may be mowed in the fall, but it is host to leave it uncut as a protection to tho young roots tho first winter. Pastur ing by pigs is destructive of tlio crop. . J. limes. Tako care how vim let any machine ill or lubricator conio in contact witli t cut or scratch on your hand or arm, or serious blood poison nmv result. hi tlio manufacture of some of these machine oils fat from diseased ami de composed animals is used. All physi cians know how poisonous such matter Is. J ho oim safeguard is not to lot any spot whore tho skin is broken be touched by any machine oil or lubri. cator. 2'ic Farmer and Mattultctttrcr, OILED ICS-CREAM. Some of tlio Chlncne Hummer Drllcaclei Coveted by the Gothnm Heathen. One of tho attractions of Mott street on a summer Sunday nro tho several uiuncso watermelon statins, i ono wishes to enjoy a genuine Oriental market sight, with stands and booths of ncarlv orcry description, crowded witii Chinese patrons, lie should pass through Mott street on a Sunday after noon, say about five o'clock. Tho way the heathens got nway witli Christian watermelon is significant. Without exaggeration on a single Sunday after noon between tlio hours of four and eight p. m., nt least two tons, or four thousand pounds, of watermelons nro devoured by tho throat-parched opium smokers. Ihero aro seven Chinamen who keep watermelon stands and each takes in from twenty to fiftv dollar per Sunday. They retail their melons at five cents a slice to their fellow conn trymen. As many as forty Chinamen aro often soon surrounding ono stand munching at lingo chunks of- well ripened "Wes'tern pumpkins," as tlio Chinese call them. Thou thcro aro tho Chinese peanut stands, that also do a big business at any time of tho year. This is because tlio Chinese cook their peanuts in salt water. Ihoy are boiled until they be como mellow. Even tho Chinese roasted peanuts aro much superior to thoso produced by tho son of sunny Italy, bocauso tho nuts nro soaked in salt for thirty-six hours before they aro put through the roaster. Tho watermelon seeds are similarly treated, and they servo among tlio Mongolians of Gotham as a very dainty dish at their groat dinners, as, instead of smoking cigars, the Chinese guests sit down and crack watermelon seeds. Thosugar-cano stands also do a rush ing business, as do the Chinese "Leon fun" or ico-cream stands. The Chinese ice-croam is somewhat different from .my other kind of ice-cream. In tho first placo it lias no ice in it, and in tho second place there is no cream; but it is called Loon fun or "cold" croam or jelly, and it is really the only thing that answers to ico-cream among tho four hundred million of heathens in China. Tlio Chinese aro so fond of it that even tho real article hero has failed to super sodo it. This "Leon fun" is mado of u species of light stuff, very much liko American blanc mango. It is boiled very thin with brown sugar and sot in cold water until it congeals and then cut up in dico-shaped small squares. A fow spoonfuls of this is put into a bowl, a kind of thin, cool sweetened sauco is poured over it, and tho whole of this peculiar mixture is sold for Christian nickel. Tho Mott street fan- tan pl.'tyors call it boiled ice-cream. Wong Chin Foo, in N. Y. World. SMUGGLING AT NIAGARA. How American Omuls Are Carried Across the Canadian Uik. Quito a thriving smuggling business s done by boatmen on tho river, and at least thrco Port Erie boatmen mako their living this way. whilo there are dozens of others who carrv contraband goods occasionally. Two Fort Erie fish ermen, who were drowned last winter, had thoir boat loaded with live hun dred pounds of coal, which caused tho craft to capsize on tho ice-floe when a break-up occurred on the lake. llio penalty for smuggling into Canada is heavy, and there are somo queer wrinkles in tlio law. For in stance, tho informant gets a largo per centago of tho proceeds of a seizure Then, if a person should smuggle : small amount of goods while t;ntofinr the larger part, the whole is subject to seizure. When Hoot & Koating's confi dential clerk, Erp, embezzled several thousand dollars, he built a lino house over the river in Fort Erie and furnished it in excellent style. Ho entered his housohold goods on tho freo list as having been used several months, but afterward smuggled over several laco window curtains. A Fort Erie woman, who got into Mrs. Erp's confidence, in formed tho officers, and every thing in tlio house was seized. Tho informant got a largo part of tho furniture, and lias some of it now in her house in tho village. Tho seizure so broke up Erp that ho returned to Duffalo and gave up all ho had left on condition that lie would noti'o criminally prosecuted. A veteran boatman said to-day: "Smuggling is going on all tho time along the Niagara river front. It is mostly from this side into Canada. Small boats are used, and every even ing dozens of parcels are carried over. Fort Erie peoplo get seven-eighths of their supplies from Duffalo, and seven eighths of tliis pays no duty. Thoy bring tlio goods down to tho water front and leave them with somo boat honso keeper or friend and give somo boatman over the river a tip to ferry thoin across. They'll do it for twenty five cents alul deliver tlio goods after dark. The Canadian olllcers aro hon est enough, but they have got too much to watch and can not cover every point. "I ferried over four young fellows one night who each had a now suit of clothes. People save fifty per cent., on some things and thou they can't get what they want over in Canada. Poor coffee costs forty conts a pound, when just as good can bo got in Duffalo for twonty-tlvo cents. Ton is tlio same way. You can not got a decent pair of shoes in Fort Erie. Housekeepers go to the citv, order ten or twelve dollars worth of goods to be delivered at a eor tain place along tho river, and during the night tho goods are transferred across. Jiujl'alo Cor. Chicago Sows. m Fremont County, Wyo., sheared sixty-live thousand sheep this season, yielding live hundred and twenty-live thousand pounds of wool. GENUINE HEROISM. The Direction In Which to Look for Prac tical Instances of it. Curtius rode into the dreadful nnd dark, abyss for tho salvation of Rome It was a deed for all time to applaud and for all men to exult over a splcu did exhibition of personal daring and of patriotic sacrifice. A good d nearer to us in point of fact and tunc was the heroic front of Nathan Hale, tlio gallant young martyr of the Amer ican revolution, whoso last regret was that he had only only one lifo to give to his country. Very properly wo admir and celebrate those and all heroic deeds; but there aro other kinds of heroism of which littlo note is made but which ought to movo us to admir; tion as fervid ns that which tlio world lias agreed to lav upon tho altars whoreon patriotism has immolated it self in the splendid moments of tho world s history. Where, for example shall wo find loftier courage than that of the woman who goes into her own kitchen day after day and week after week during tlio long continued and wearing heat of the summer, that those who aro dependent on lier ministrations may cat and drink and bo satisfied? And that sho does it with sweet cheer fulness, and that she comes from her kitchen to her dinner table flushed and overheated, thinking only how she can enhance tho family comfort. with never a complaint for self, and you may have a truly heroic figure, Sublime patienco is the only weapon with which wo can do hopeful Dattlo against extreme boat. How many of us are possessed of sufficient moral music to handle that weapon valiantly? The lament able fact is, most of us aro too ready to lay down the good sword point of patience and fight only with dull com plaint and querulous objurgation. The general impulse is to run away at tho hrst onslaught of summer, in cowardly and selfish heedlessness of the mother martyr in her kitchen. She is not an inspiration for tlio poets (who aro not, as a rulc.'hclpful or reassuring persons to nvo with), but, as this world goes. sho is tho motor and tho fly wheel of tlio lainily machine. Without her what could Wo do? .And where should we find a substitute? It is onlvthe favored fow who can say to tho hired servant "Go thou, and do nnd suffer in our service that wo may eat of the pahv tablo whortleberry pio and tho juicy roast bcof, and drink of the iced tea that rattles merrily in tho capacious goblet." Appreciation of the humble woman s patience and courage and fortitude in tho faco of hor kitchen sufferings would seem to be the small est compensation that we can rivo hor. No doubt we would gladly pay her much moro than appreciation if only some thoughtful friend would remind us of our debt. The trouble with us is that wo accept her uncomplaining service as part of our inherent right. Why may not wo mako an occasional littlo speech or perform an occasional littlo act of thanks? Detroit Free Press. BENEFITS OF SUNLIGHT. FartH for Hotim-kccpers Who Have the Wolfaro of Tlmlr KaiullIcH at Heart. Instead of excluding tho sunlight from our houses lest it fade carpets nnd curtains, draw flics and bring freckles. we should open every door and window and bid it enter. It brings life and health and joy; there is healing in its beams; it drives away disease, damp ness, mold, megrims. Instead of do ing this, however, many careful house wives close tho bl'nds, draw down tho shades, lock the doors, .shut out the glorifying rays, nnd rejoice in the dim and musty coolness and twilight of their apartments. It is pleasant, and not unwholesome during tho glare of tho noontide to subdue tliri heat, but in the evening wo may freely indulge in tho sun-bath, and let it 'flood all our rooms and if at its very fiercest ind brightest, it has full entrance to our sleeping rooms so much tho better for us. Wire netting in doors md windows excludes not Hies and mosquitoes onlv, but all other insects, and those who have onco used it will continue to do so. With this as a pro tection from intrusive winged ereat ures, one may almost dispenso with shades and shutters; and enjoy all tho benefits of an open house without any of tho annoyances so frequent in warm weather. Dut better the annoyances with sunshine than freedom from them without it. Statistics of epidemics have shown that if thoj' rage' in any part of a city, they will prevail in houses which aro exposed the least to sunshine, while those most exposed to it, will not bo at all, or very slightly, ttlected. Even in tho sanio house, persons occupying rooms exposed to- sunlight will bo healthier and repulse epidemic influences better than thoso occupying rooms where no sunlight en ters. Baptist Weekly. Gonoral John Didwell, who rccent gavo eight acres of his great ranch at Chico, Cal., as a site for tho now Normal School of Northern California, went to that State long before tho dis covery of gold. Ho bought ids ranch of 30,000 acres for $:),000, and now it is worth $-.000,000, and yields an income of sf 100,000. General Didwell used to bo a great wiuo producer, but his second wife has induced him to root out all his wiuo grapes and replace them witli raisin grapes. A turtle was found in 1851 south of York, Pa., by sevoral parties, who marked it "L. K." In 1877 it was found again, and few davs ago tlio amo old turtle was found on tho farm of Mr. J. F. Hohrbaoh, south of York. When found and marked in 1851 the turtle was us large as it is now. BOLD RAILWAY THIEVES. now Traveler In Italy Are ltobbed of the Contents of Their Trunks. English travelers in Italy have now and then had occasion to perceive that thoir luggage was not safe from depre dations which could only be charged to the railway employes, but com plaints have always been fruitless even to diminish the number of thefts ex cept for a short period, some years since, when a lady of tho diplomatic world had her jewels taken neatly out of her trunk, which caused official ac tion and detection of tho dishonest oilicials, when for a time tlio thefts were less common. Tho effect of tho investigation which then took place, however, passed away, and now wo have another Princess robbed nnd an other inquisition, for railway robberies, like collisions, require victims in high positions to secure the attention of tho authorities. In tlio last ton years I havo had my luggage rifled five times before I learned tlio way to treat it, which is, first, to put nothing in tlio luggago which can bo of value to tho thieves; and, secondly, to see that the locks aro such as can not bo tampered with without showing it when the luggago is delivered. Some cautious peoplo carry leaden seals and pincers with cipher, and seal all the luggage as if it were going from Rome to Florence. This is effective. Tiie thieves have access to the lug gage vans, and work whilo tho train is in motion. Thoy generally drive out tho pin of tho hasp of tlio lock or thoso of tho hinges, go carefully through tho contents, put them back as carefully, after having taken what they want, and put the pins of lock or hinges back in their place., The thefts aro gener ally limited to luggage going through Italy or that which evidently belongs to foreigners. If a box has luggago tickets on it showing that it goes back and forth continually in Italy tho thieves let it alone. Tho owner of tho luggage thus does not discover tlio theft till too far from the thief to com plain. Complaint is, however, of no use. In one personal experience, in which my wife's trunk had been deli cately overlooked and 20 extracted from an envelope in a writiug-oaso at the bottom, where it was put at Turin, every thing else having boon carefully replaced, I made complaint to the station-master at Venice, us won as wo found that tho money was missing, and the magnanimous official laughed at me, saying: "If you fear for your ef fects take them into tho carriage with you, at which tho whole stall haw- hawed uproariously; it was so good a joke to propose to tako a lady's trunk into tiie passenger carriage. In an other case I found a portmanteau forced open, so that I was aware of tho robbery before I took my luggago from the station, and at once called the at tention of the officials to it, when they replied that us the luggage had passed over several roads it was impossible to say where it was done. Home Cor. London Times. CHARACTER IN SHOES. The Slgnlllrant .Stories Told by Old or l'artly-Worn Toot-Gear. "Do you know how much character there is to be read in a partly worn pair of boots or shoes?" said tho cob bler to the reporter, as ho hammered a last nail in among a double row of them on the outer border of the heel of a boot. "There might bo a collection formed of shoos taken from tho feet of a dozen wearers and tho dullest com prehension would seo somo trait ex hibited in looking them over. There is tho cow-hide variety, coarse, mado for work and not for ornament; its solo will bo found evenly worn, denot ing a phlegmatic, steady character, whoso shoes boar him stead ily and without nervousness to and from labor, which, not being his own. needs no rush or hurry. Then you may tako tho better grade of men's shoes; there's one with oaeli heel worn away at the back, which denotes tho brisk, energetic business man, and tho pair near by, similar, but with tlio left heel worn at the back while tho right ono has kept its original shape. Why, if you work for that man and somo day ho looks up to the sky and says: "I hero ;oes a white crow, vou say it is very white, or you will look for a new place, because ho is a man of emphatic ideas. which lie emphasis at every stop as ho pegs down that left heel. "Look out for that pair of shoes all run down at the side, and have him for your good-natured, jolly, fun-loving friend, but not to look out for vour in terests, because ho never did it for his own, and consequently will not for an other. Then tlioro is ono pair with tho toot, 'stubbed out.' Theso are owned by a visionary man, whoso thoughts and eyes are away up in tlio clouds, so tar above earthly things as to mako him an impractical man in all business matters. Ihero aro women s books. too, but about tho only difference lies in the radical changes that tho last fow years havo brought about, for where onco the woman of fashion wore only tho narrow-toed, French-heel boot, and tho lower class the sensible shoe, sho of the hunt ton now wears only the com mon sense style, and to the servant girl on her afternoon out, and to the lower class, the onco favorite French shoo is relegated. What on earth holds more cause for pathos and anguish ,in inani mate form than tho tiny, half-worn tdtoes of the littlo one whoso footsteps were so fow until thoy started back on thoir journoy to the angols they left iv littlo whilo ago? Many n broken hearted mother will part with all her doail child's wardrobe for charity's sake, but the Mttle shoos she will ten derly wrap up ami keep through tho years that pass between their parting and meeting." Providence Journal.